Автор: Philip Gerard
Название: Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception
Издательство: Dutton
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 432
Язык: English
Размер: 70 MB
They were masters of the craft of illusion and deception, and their greatest disappearing act was to vanish from history. The men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were recruited to become phantom warriors in a ghost army to help win the Battle of Europe. A thousand strong, they fought in more campaigns, from D Day to the Rhine River, with more Allied armies, than any other unit in the European Theater of Operations-yet not even their fellow American soldiers were aware of their presence.